A mutation that does not change the sequence of amino acids and does not cause disease.
What is a "nonsense" or "silent" mutation?
100
These are the building blocks of proteins.
What are amino acids?
200
The 4 nitrogen bases of DNA
What are Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine?
200
The sequence of nucleotide bases on mRNA that would complement the following bases on DNA:
A T T C G C A G T
What is U A A G C G U C A
200
DNA is copied into a strand of RNA during this step of protein synthesis.
What is Transcription?
200
The type of mutation that occurs when one base is replaced by another.
What is a substitution?
200
The bonds that link amino acids together.
What are peptide bonds?
300
Two processes that occur in the nucleus involving DNA
What are DNA Replication and Transcription?
300
The full names of the 4 nitrogen bases found in RNA
What is Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, and Uracil
300
Anticodons and amino acids are found on this molecule.
What is transfer RNA?
300
The original strand of DNA is ACT TTG CGA
The mutated strand of DNA is ACT TTC GA
This is a _______________ mutation.
What is a deletion?
300
The special type of proteins that help to unzip DNA by breaking hydrogen bonds.
What is helicase?
400
The three parts of the DNA nucleotide (building block)
What are deoxyribose sugar, phosphate group and nitrogen base?
400
The full names of the 3 different types of RNA
What are messenger RNA, transfer RNA and ribosomal RNA?
400
Groups of three bases on a mRNA molecule
What is a codon?
400
The type of mutation that happens when a base is either deleted or inserted, causing a change in the reading of codons and all the amino acids afterwards.
What is a frameshift?
400
A special type of protein that aids in replication by adding new nucleotides to the complementary DNA strand.
What is DNA polymerase?
500
The reason why DNA replication occurs.
What is to pass on genetic information to other cells during cell division, growth, or repair?
500
Two differences between the STRUCTURE of RNA and DNA.
What is DNA is double stranded and RNA is single stranded? What is RNA has Ribose and DNA has Deoxyribose? What is RNA has the base Uracil and DNA has the base Thymine?
500
This is the anticodon for CAG
What is GUC?
500
A mutation that results in a chromosome having more than one copy of a gene on it.
What is a duplication?
500
The name for long chains of amino acids that form during protein synthesis.